Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 695756
[RFE][RHEL6] Rebase Firefox to a stable Firefox
Last modified: 2013-07-03 00:13:07 EDT
2. What is the nature and description of the request? Customer has requested that Red Hat rebase Firefox to Firefox-4 in RHEL 6. 3. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here) Firefox 4 is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform. This release features JavaScript execution speeds up to six times faster than the previous version, new capabilities for Web Developers and Add-on Developers such as hardware accelerated graphics and HTML5 technologies, and a completely revised user interface. 4. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here) Rebase Firefox to Firefox-4 in RHEL 6. 5. For each functional requirement listed in question 4, specify how Red Hat and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully implemented. Provide test packages to the customer, internal testing. 6. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat bugzilla? Firefox 4 exists upstream. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/ 7. How quickly does this need resolved? (desired target release) RHEL 6.2 is the desired release. 8. Does this request meet the RHEL Inclusion criteria (please review) Yes. 9. List the affected packages Firefox
There are test packages here: http://people.redhat.com/stransky/rhel-6/
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Firefox has been upgraded to version 5.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version.
xulrunner seems to build fine but firefox needs a BuildRequires of yasm and yous hould add that to your test rpms collection there...
ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora-epel/beta/6/SRPMS/yasm-0.7.2-3.el6.src.rpm seems to work for yasm. ff5 then builds and seems to run, however the webm test here: http://www.wellesley.edu/~kenny/html5/vp8.html fails and works in chrome on my same machine. If webm doesn't work, consider just configuring with webm off.
http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/1891/sunflower-webm.html got it to spin once, usually shows x http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/1891/custom-controls-webm-720p.html http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/1891/custom-controls-webm-360p.html controls appear, but no video http://people.opera.com/patrickl/experiments/webm/fancy-swap/ works though Youtube in HTML5 appears to fail. "Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available."
Package: firefox-5.0-1.el6 Latest Crash: Sun 31 Jul 2011 01:20:18 PM Command: /usr/lib64/firefox-5/firefox -new-tab '' Reason: Process /usr/lib64/firefox-5/firefox was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) Comment: None Bug Reports: During normal browsing. Also some videos (not sure what player, but something akin to flowplayer) show up with big square sections going transparent and showing background white and flashing.
yasm is not a part of RHEL6 and we can't depend on a package from EPEL. So webm is disabled on RHEL6 for now.
Then the bug is needing --disable-webm in configure. Compiling the specfile as is complained.
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1 +1 @@ -Firefox has been upgraded to version 5.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version.+Firefox has been upgraded to version 7.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version.
*** Bug 652630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Firefox 8 requires nss 3.13 and nspr 4.9.
Deleted Technical Notes Contents. Old Contents: Firefox has been upgraded to version 7.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version.
Why is there still no Firefox 8 in RHEL 6.2? Your marketing blah-foo e.g. at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/ says, that you are going to update Firefox during the RHEL lifetime. Even RHEL 4 ships Firefox 3.6, but RHEL 6.2 does not ship a current Firefox somehow?! Or is this only marketing-crap nowadays? :-(
Robert, for your information: https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-62747 Note the section that states: "Red Hat will continue with its policy of releasing and supporting new versions of Firefox when new versions become available and *reach suitable stability* for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux." Feel free to open a Red Hat Support case against your paid production RHEL subscriptions with your comments/requests. Thank you! Andrius.
*** Bug 746788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Just to note that looks like Firefox 10 has been agreed by mozilla to be a long term support (of 1 year) so might be worthwhile rebasing to that for RHEL5/6... In addition looks like Firefox 3.6 will be end of lifed and lose upstream security fixes as of around April 24th... Info is here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal
Already fixed in RHEA-2012:0327.